Screen and schedule candidates without the phone tag
Recruiters spend hours every day playing phone tag with candidates who do not respond to emails, taking notes that blur together after twenty calls, and repeating the same screening questions on every conversation. VeraDial gives you an AI agent that handles screening calls, transcribes everything, and makes sure candidates actually pick up when you call.
The Problem
Recruiting is a phone-heavy job stuck with phone-era problems
Email response rates are declining. Candidates expect to hear from recruiters by phone. But the phone experience itself has not improved in decades — you still play tag, take manual notes, and lose details across dozens of daily conversations. These are the three biggest friction points in a recruiter's phone workflow.
Playing phone tag with candidates across time zones
You call a candidate at 10 AM Eastern. They are on the West Coast and still asleep. They call back at 3 PM their time — you are in an interview. You try again the next morning — straight to voicemail. Three days pass. The best candidates are off the market in a week, and you are spending that week trying to get them on the phone for a fifteen-minute conversation. Multiply this by twenty open positions, and phone tag becomes the single biggest bottleneck in your pipeline.
Hours spent on initial screening calls that could be automated
The first phone screen is usually the same five questions: availability, salary expectations, willingness to relocate, start date, and work authorization. You already know the script by heart. But you still have to make twenty calls a day, ask the same questions, take notes, and move on to the next one. These are not conversations that require your judgment — they are data collection calls. The strategic work — evaluating fit, selling the role, closing the candidate — comes later. But you cannot get to the strategic work because the data collection calls fill your calendar.
No transcripts — candidate details blur together after 20 calls
By Thursday afternoon, you have spoken with fifteen candidates for three different roles. Who was the one with five years of Python experience and a preference for remote work? Was that the candidate from the Tuesday morning call or the Wednesday afternoon one? Your handwritten notes say "strong communication, open to hybrid" — but that describes half of them. Without transcripts, you are relying on memory and fragments of shorthand to make decisions about which candidates advance. Details get mixed up, and good candidates get overlooked because their call happened to fall on a busy afternoon.
Full transcripts and summaries for every candidate call
How VeraDial Solves It
AI screening, verified caller ID, and transcripts for every call
VeraDial turns your phone into a recruiting machine. AI handles the repetitive screening calls. Verified caller ID gets candidates to actually answer. And every conversation — whether you made it or the AI did — is recorded, transcribed, and summarized automatically. Here is how each feature fits into your recruiting workflow.
AI makes screening calls — asks about availability, salary, and timeline
Configure VeraDial's AI agent with your screening script: "Call this candidate. Introduce yourself as calling from [company name] regarding the [role] they applied for. Ask about their earliest start date, salary expectations, willingness to relocate to Austin, and whether they have work authorization." The AI makes the call, asks each question naturally, listens to the answers, and delivers a complete transcript with a summary. Twenty screening calls that would take you four hours are done by lunchtime — without you picking up the phone once.
Full transcripts and summaries for every candidate conversation
Every call — whether made by you or by the AI — generates a full transcript and an AI-written summary. When you need to recall what a specific candidate said about relocation, you search the transcript instead of digging through sticky notes. When the hiring manager asks for a recap, you forward the summary instead of writing one from memory. Transcripts are time-stamped, searchable, and stored permanently in your call history. After twenty calls in a day, this is the difference between a clear pipeline and a foggy one.
Verified caller ID means candidates actually answer your calls
Recruiters live and die by answer rates. When your outbound calls show up as "Spam Likely" or "Unknown Caller," half your candidates never pick up. VeraDial numbers carry STIR/SHAKEN A-level attestation — the highest level of caller identity verification available. Your calls display a verified number with proper attestation, so carrier spam filters let them through and candidates see a legitimate incoming call. The result: higher answer rates, fewer voicemails, and less phone tag.
Call recording for reviewing candidate responses later
Toggle recording on any call to capture the full conversation. When you are screening five candidates for the same role, recording lets you revisit each conversation with fresh ears. Compare how Candidate A and Candidate B answered the same question about leadership experience. Share recordings with hiring managers who want to hear the candidate directly, not just your interpretation. Recordings are stored with the call record, so they are easy to find and reference weeks or months later if a candidate re-enters your pipeline.
Dedicated business number — separate recruiting from personal
Give candidates a professional business number that is not your personal cell phone. When a candidate calls back at 9 PM, it goes to your VeraDial voicemail — not your personal phone ringing during dinner. When you change jobs or agencies, your candidate relationships stay tied to a number you control, not your employer's phone system. A dedicated recruiting line also makes it easy to track call volume, set boundaries on availability, and maintain a professional presence that candidates and clients trust.
SMS for quick candidate confirmations
Not every candidate interaction needs a phone call. Send a quick text from your VeraDial number to confirm interview details: "Interview confirmed: Thursday 3 PM with Sarah Kim, VP of Engineering. Zoom link: [link]." Follow up after a screening call: "Thanks for your time today — next steps coming by Friday." Candidates expect text communication, and sending it from a professional business number is far better than texting from a personal cell phone. Every SMS is logged alongside your call history for a complete communication trail.
A Day in the Life
How Rachel fills 4 positions in a week with VeraDial
Rachel — Technical Recruiter
4 open positions, 30+ candidates in pipeline
Monday morning — AI screens weekend applicants
Over the weekend, 8 candidates applied for Rachel's open Senior Backend Engineer role. Monday at 9 AM, Rachel sets up AI screening calls for all 8. The AI script: "Hi, this is a call from [company] regarding the Senior Backend Engineer position you applied for. I have a few quick questions. What is your earliest possible start date? What is your salary range expectation? Are you open to relocating to Austin, or do you require a fully remote arrangement?" By 10:30 AM, all 8 calls are complete. Rachel has 8 transcripts with AI-generated summaries in her call history.
Late morning — Review and shortlist
Rachel reviews the 8 transcripts over coffee. Three candidates stand out: one with an immediate start date and matching salary range, one with exceptional experience who is open to relocation, and one who asked thoughtful counter-questions about the team and tech stack (the AI captured those too). Two candidates are outside the salary range. One did not answer — VeraDial left a voicemail and the candidate can call back to Rachel's business number. Rachel marks the three shortlisted candidates for personal follow-up calls in the afternoon.
Afternoon — Personal follow-up calls with recording
Rachel calls the three shortlisted candidates personally from her VeraDial number. Because VeraDial numbers carry STIR/SHAKEN A-level attestation, all three answer on the first ring — no "Unknown Caller" flags. She toggles recording on each call to capture the deeper conversation about technical experience, team culture fit, and career goals. Each call generates a transcript she can reference later, instead of relying on the notes she scrawled between conversations.
End of week — Transcripts replace manual notes
Friday: Rachel sends the hiring manager a summary for each shortlisted candidate, pulling directly from the call transcripts. No rewriting from memory. No "I think they said..." qualifiers. The hiring manager can even listen to the relevant portion of each recording. Rachel sends SMS confirmations to the two candidates advancing to on-site interviews: "Interview confirmed: Thursday 3 PM with Sarah Kim, VP of Engineering." Total time spent on initial screening for 8 candidates: 45 minutes of transcript review instead of 4 hours of phone calls.
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candidates screened before lunch by AI
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higher answer rate with verified caller ID
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candidate details lost to bad notes
Built For
Recruiters who would rather close candidates than chase them
Whether you are an agency recruiter managing multiple clients, an in-house recruiter filling a hiring surge, or a solo headhunter working a niche, VeraDial fits into your workflow without adding complexity. One app, one number, AI that handles the calls you should not be making manually.
Agency recruiters managing pipelines across multiple clients
In-house talent acquisition teams handling high-volume hiring
Executive search consultants who need call documentation for clients
Solo headhunters and independent recruiting consultants
Staffing agencies screening temp and contract candidates at scale
University recruiters coordinating campus hiring events and follow-ups
Simple Pricing
$9.99/month for an AI-powered recruiting phone
One flat price. No per-call fees, no per-seat charges, no enterprise minimums. You get a dedicated business number, AI calling agents, call recording, transcription, SMS, and verified caller ID — everything described on this page. One placed candidate covers years of VeraDial. The ROI is not even close.
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FAQ
Recruiter FAQ
Can VeraDial's AI run first-touch candidate screening calls?
Yes. You give the AI a screening goal (verify work authorization, confirm years of experience, check salary expectations, book a recruiter interview) and a caller profile with your agency name and the role being filled. The AI calls the candidate, runs through the screening naturally, and delivers a transcript with structured answers. Recruiters commonly run the AI on a fresh batch of inbound applicants every morning and review transcripts over coffee before deciding who to push to live interviews.
Can I customize the screening questions per role or per client?
Yes. Each AI call accepts a custom prompt where you describe the specific role, company context, and what you need to find out. For high-volume recruiting, you can save role-specific prompts as quick templates and dispatch them in batches. The AI adapts to the candidate's answers conversationally rather than reading a rigid script.
What if a candidate pushes back on talking to an AI or wants a human?
The AI handles that gracefully: it acknowledges the preference, captures the candidate's best time for a human callback, and delivers that request to you in the transcript. You see the candidate's pushback verbatim — useful signal in itself about how they might respond to automation-heavy clients downstream. In practice, most candidates engage with the AI once it's clear it's screening them for a real role rather than cold-spamming them.
Does VeraDial integrate with our ATS (Greenhouse, Lever, Bullhorn)?
No native integrations today. Workflow: the AI call transcripts export cleanly and get pasted or copied into ATS candidate notes. For high-volume staffing agencies that need tight ATS sync as a core requirement, look at dialer tools that publish Bullhorn/Greenhouse/Lever connectors. VeraDial's value is the AI-does-the-first-touch-call capability; the ATS plumbing lives in your existing stack.
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Stop playing phone tag. Start closing candidates.
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